Cifra: Vesperae Lauretanae (The Loreto Vespers)

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It's very rare that Cifra's demands get the better of the singers...and the instrumental ensemble plays with a zest and confidence that matches the music's consistently sunny disposition. The... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2011 More…

Release Date: 10th Jan 2011
Catalogue No: CHR77321
Label: Christophorus
Length: 66 minutes

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Salmi boscarecci concertati: Domine ad adjuvandum

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Dum esset rex [Offizium zum Fest Maria Verkundigung]

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Cifra: Loreto Vespers

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Loreto Vespers: Dixit Dominus

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Beata mater

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Loreto Vespers

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Loreto Vespers: Confitebor

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Nigra sum

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Loreto Vespers

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Loreto Vespers: Beatus vir

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Iam hiems transiit (CHR77321)

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Iam hiems transiit

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Loreto Vespers

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Loreto Vespers: Laudate pueri

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Vestimentum tuum

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Loreto Vespers

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Loreto Vespers: Laetatus sum

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Quae est ista

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Loreto Vespers

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Nisi Dominus

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Quae est ista

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Beata es Maria

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Loreto Vespers

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Loreto Vespers: Magnificat

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Antonio Cifra was born probably in Gaeta, south of Rome, in 1584. From 1605 to 1607 he was maestro at the Roman Seminary, and from 1608 to 1609 he held the same position at the German College in Rome. In 1609 he was hired as maestro di cappella at Santa Casa in Loreto, where he remained for the rest of his life. Cultural connections between Loreto and Rome were close (since Loreto was a pilgrimage destination), and he maintained contact with the composers in Rome during this period Cifra was a prolific composer, with 45 separate publications to his credit: they included psalms, motets, litanies, "Scherzi sacri," masses, polychoral motets, and sacred songs, as well as secular music including madrigals in both the Renaissance a cappella and Baroque concertato forms. Stylistically, Cifra's music varies between masses in the Palestrina style, with much use of homophony (as desired by the Counter-Reformation Council of Trent, which had required that polyphonic elaboration be minimised), and more progressive works in the Venetian style. He was also one of the few composers to be influenced by the extreme chromaticism of Carlo Gesualdo. The psalms and motets for 12 voices, published in Venice in the year of his death, and presented in this recording as Vesperae Lauretanae, reveal Cifra’s mature late style.

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March 2011

It's very rare that Cifra's demands get the better of the singers...and the instrumental ensemble plays with a zest and confidence that matches the music's consistently sunny disposition. The recording is full and atmospheric, too; anyone interested in this period should investigate without hesitation.

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